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WILSON´S SHIPWRECK AT PALAU IN 1783 (2). WILSON, HENRY. Relation des Îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l´Océan Pacifique, composée sur les journaux et les communications du capitaine Henri Wilson, et de quelques-uns de ses officiers, qui, en août mil sept cent quatre-vingt-trois, y ont fait naufrage sur l´Antelope, paquebot de la Compagnie des Indes orientales. Traduit de l´anglois, de George Keate, ecuyer, membre de la Société royale, et de celles des Antiquaires. I-II. A Paris, chez Le Jay [&] Maradan, 1788.
8vo. 19 x 13 cm. (4), 282, (4), 274, (5) pp. With 2 folding engraved maps and 15 engraved plates, of which 11 folding. Contwemporary calf with somewhat dried-upp gilt spines with red labels, marbled boards with gilt frames of rope and tackles, and red sprinkled edges. Some minor stains, more in parts of second volume. One folding plates with brown stain in upper part (not affecting print), one with repaired tear with browning from the glue. Library labels of the Erbach-Schönbergische Bibliothek on front board insides, hand-written inventory slips pasted on front fly leaves. 2 volumes.
Wilson wrecked the Antelope on Ulong and during his three-month stay while the ship was being repaired, he and his crew became somewhat involved in the affairs of the island state (Palau - Belau or Pelew, as it was then called is situated at the western outskirts of the Carolines, east of the Philippines), allied with it against the Melekeok and other peoples faring through the waters, but not necessarily getting the circumstances right all the time. On returning to England they brought with them one of the "king´s" sons, who succumbed to smallpox and died only after a couple of months in the new country. The book contains a brief vocabulary of the Palau language, pp. 251-69 in the second volume, presumably the first ever printed.

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430962

Datum:

2016-12-28